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 Quality of Life

Public safety issues that affect the most people are those that deal with the quality of life in a neighborhood. Issues such as gangs, graffiti, drug dealers, nuisance properties, or prostitution can have a widespread impact on a community. To address quality of life problems such as these, the District Attorney’s Office has implemented community prosecution efforts in several cities and communities throughout the County.

In community prosecution, one deputy district attorney is assigned to a particular area to respond to public nuisance problems that deteriorate the quality of life in a neighborhood. The community prosecutor works with law enforcement, probation, residents, local officials, school districts, and others to develop and implement crime reduction and crime prevention strategies. These strategies are tailored to each community to address the issues that are of greatest concern to its residents. Strategies have included gang member tracking, zero-tolerance probation violations, criminal nuisance property abatement, participation on Student Attendance Review Boards (SARBs), and anti-truancy and mentoring programs.

Community prosecutors work proactively to prevent crime in their assigned neighborhoods, but they also lead crime suppression efforts. Community prosecutors have spearheaded legislation efforts to curtail illegal activities such as street car racing. Often, they will vertically prosecute gang or other targeted cases in their assigned community, which means that they themselves handle the case from beginning to end. In one prosecution, for example, a community prosecutor shut down a prostitution house that had been in operation for decades.

Through the community prosecution program, deputy district attorneys make a tremendous impact. Through novel and traditional means, they combat crime and alleviate those conditions that make a community more susceptible to it.

Community Prosecution Division
Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office
300 S. Park Ave., Rm. 770
Pomona, CA. 91766
Phone: (909) 868-5466

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